J.R.R. Tolkien

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

– J.R.R. Tolkien –

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Carol Berg

On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, with all the accompanying mystery and elevated language appropriate for a prominent diviner, turned her cards, screamed delicately, and proclaimed that my doom was written in water and blood and ice. As for me, from about that time and for twenty years since, I had spat on my middle finger and slapped the rump of every aingerou I noticed, murmuring the sincerest, devoutest prayer that I might prove my parents’ predictions wrong. Not so much that I feared the doom itself – doom is just the hind end of living, after all – but to see the two who birthed me confounded.

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